Request: for non-urgent, potentially high-impact changes, can notices to village pumps and mailing lists go out at least 3 weeks in advance to give the community opportunity to prepare and/or comment? I am not anticipating that we'll get meaningfully more mobile Web vandalism, but announcing non-urgent changes like this would be appreciated weeks in advance.
Thanks, Pine On Oct 28, 2015 7:51 PM, "Jon Katz" <jk...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > TLDR: on the mobile web, Wikidata descriptions will appear under article > titles in search results, nearby and watchlist starting tomorrow afternoon > (Thu, Oct 29) across projects. A 'kill switch' has been implemented so > that this feature can be turned off if necessary. > > Background: > In Q2 of last year, Wikidata descriptions were added to both our official > apps: iOS and Android and resulted in wonderful qualitative feedback (as > the discovery team knows, it is hard to define 'success' with search (fewer > searches, more searches?). Though moving Wikidata descriptions to search > on mobile web was planned for Q3 of last year, it has been sitting in beta > for many months as there was some concern that at scale on the web, it > might prove to be an incentive to vandalize Wikidata (and article editors > would not have an obvious, wikipedia way to undo such edits). > > Ultimately, we think that anything showing up on Wikipedia should be > editable ON Wikipedia. Wikidata description editing is something we are > going to aim for. Given the success of descriptions in search results on > apps, we would rather move forward with the presentation and work towards a > goal of editing in-line than to hold up the entire thing based on a fear > that might not be warranted. In consultation with the Wikidata team, we > decided to move forward with pushing the feature to stable as long as we > had the ability to pull the feature back if there were any issues. > > We are relying on community feedback to let us know if you have any issues > or hear from anyone that this is causing problems. Our community liaison > team will be posting notices on village pumps shortly. Thanks! > > Best, > > Jon > WMF Reading Product Lead > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
